Night baseball risks ruin of sport says Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell warns that night games threaten baseball by shifting to four and five games weekly. He argues it harms players and families, endangers youngsters, and blights the culture, urging leagues to fund baseball schools with retired stars to train boys.
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Army Gestapo Union In Belgium and Northern France
Nazi radio reported a decree uniting the German army supreme command with Gestapo in occupied Belgium and northern France. General Richard Jungklaus was named commander in chief, with questions about General von Falkenhausen's fate after alleged leniency toward saboteurs.
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German People and Purge in War Effort Statement
The excerpt references directing the war effort and the need to purge elements disturbing public order and security, signaling a governmental push to consolidate control and enforce conformity during wartime. It implies actions against perceived internal threats and mobilization of society for total war.
Blacklisted Transit Striker Faces Lifetime Employment Bar
Philadelphia report says Thomas A. Quigley 30, a motor man and father of two, was blacklisted for life for failing to obey the army directive to end the transit strike. He was the only PTC worker among eight discharged to receive the blacklist. Dorothe Hibbs, 21, the first trolley operator to resume service, quit after threats and whistle remarks. she received a release and new job referral from the War Manpower commission.
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Evening Movie Schedule With City Theaters
The Gazette lists Tuesday film times for Paramount Iowa Palace Rialto Shrine of Victory and Times venues. Feature showings include Going My Way The Hour Before the Dawn Louisiana Hayride Standing Room Only Crash Dive The Meanest Man in Town Around the World and See Here Private Hargrove plus Sarong Girl with multiple daily showings.
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Italy moves toward national unity cabinet under Orlando
Reports from Rome say talks aimed at forming a national concentration government to replace Premier Ivanoe Bonomi. Victor Emanuel Orlando, 84, ex WWI premier, was to lead and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, architect of the armistice, named foreign minister in the proposed administration.
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